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... sent on to Cawnpore . - The Cawnpore Massacre . The General starts for that place . - March of the first three days .. Battle of Futtehpore . Remarks on it . — Order of the Day . - Disarming of the Irregular Cavalry . - Action at Aong ...
... sent on to Cawnpore . - The Cawnpore Massacre . The General starts for that place . - March of the first three days .. Battle of Futtehpore . Remarks on it . — Order of the Day . - Disarming of the Irregular Cavalry . - Action at Aong ...
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... sent with his brother William to the Charter House , and placed in the boarding house of Dr. Raine , the head master . Dr. Raine is described as " a man to be praised as often as he is named , and who was only permitted to die unmitred ...
... sent with his brother William to the Charter House , and placed in the boarding house of Dr. Raine , the head master . Dr. Raine is described as " a man to be praised as often as he is named , and who was only permitted to die unmitred ...
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... sent with his brother William to the Charter House , and placed in the boarding house of Dr. Raine , the head master . Dr. Raine is described as " a man to be praised as often as he is named , and who was only permitted to die unmitred ...
... sent with his brother William to the Charter House , and placed in the boarding house of Dr. Raine , the head master . Dr. Raine is described as " a man to be praised as often as he is named , and who was only permitted to die unmitred ...
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... sent to capture a stockade , “ which , ” as he wrote to Lieut . Gardner , " was situated in the midst of a jungle horribly thick and tangled , and most disrespectfully near our position . The senior officer , who had just risen from a ...
... sent to capture a stockade , “ which , ” as he wrote to Lieut . Gardner , " was situated in the midst of a jungle horribly thick and tangled , and most disrespectfully near our position . The senior officer , who had just risen from a ...
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... sent him down to the camp , in company with his own plenipoten- tiaries , to negotiate a treaty , which was at length completed and signed . But it soon became apparent that , with the usual duplicity of Asiatic monarchs , he had ...
... sent him down to the camp , in company with his own plenipoten- tiaries , to negotiate a treaty , which was at length completed and signed . But it soon became apparent that , with the usual duplicity of Asiatic monarchs , he had ...
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